Troy Keenan (pictured right), a volunteer for the Batiquitos Lagoon Foundation, was working in the foundation’s nature center at the west end of the lagoon when the hikers reported their find. . . “I kind of tiptoed into the pickle weed and saw it stretched out,” Keenan said. He grabbed the snake’s tail, put his baseball cap over its head and grabbed the reptile behind its neck. In a few moments, the python was in a trash bag and animal control was on its way. . . “It got my adrenaline up, let’s put it that way,” he said.

Anyone with even basic snake knowledge would know that snake is a common Boa, NOT a Burmese Python. And further more, those types of snakes would never survive long term here in San Diego. Our news channels and “experts” should actually take 5 seconds to verify their stories, and not buy in to the stupid media hype of Pythons. However, I absolutely agree that any animal like that should never be released into the wild. Then again, feral cats (yes, house cats) do more damage to native wildlife than anything else. But that’s not a headline grabbing story, is it?